BITS OF TURF.

Te Aroha News, Volume VIII, Issue 394, 17 August 1889, Page 6

BITS OF TURF.

The Dunedin Jockey Club have every reason to be satisfied with- the nominations for the rich Exhibition Cup. Every horse of note in the colony has been entered excepting Sextant, but Mr Stead has two formidable mombers to represent him in Maxim and Gipsy King. The Auckland entries are Lady Norah, Quadrant, Fiesolo, Leopold, Corunna, Fabulous, Cuirassier, Lcorina, Cissy and Hilda. George Wright has taken Taraora in hand again. The mare has been turned out for a long time past at Sylvia Park. • Quilp, who was senfrover to Sydney for sale the other week, was knocked down at auction for 26 guineas. Mr C. S. Jewett was the buyer. Corunna was measured at the beginning of the week, and was found to be 15.1 in height. W. Hadfield had a winning mount at Rosehill races recently. The Dunedin Jockey Club has intimated its intention to make an efiort to amend the rule of [racing whioh prescribes the amounts to be paid in stakes, by introducing a clause providing that Clubs holding two meetings a year need give only £150 a day. Mr D. OBrien has returned to Christchurch froni Melbourne. All his horses and blood stock are advertised for private sale in papers on the other sido. Ahua has passed into the hands of Mr D. Rutherford, the owner of lush King, who gave Mr Scott £400 for the son ot The Painter. He will now be trained by H. Lunn. Who says good horses will nob fetch a decent iigure in New Zealand ? Dreamers are at it again, one of them in his vision having seen Meteor win the Caulfield Cup, and Gasburner the Melbourne Cup. The disqualified New Zealand mare Escapade was offered for sale in Melbourne, but failed to find a buyer. The Victoria Racing Club made a profit over the last Melbourne Cup meeting of over £25,000. The Melbourne " .Sportsmen " tout says that the four best horses at Caulfield are Meteor and Tourbillon, Benzon and Sedition. He asserts confidently that the winner of the Caulfield Cup will be furnished from one of the foregoing four. The Committee of the Canterbury Jockey Club has decided for the present to pass programmes containing not more than one trotting race each day, and allow the value of such race to count as added money tor the purposes of the rules, Niagara has completely broken down, both of his back tenclor.3 having gone. Ho is in the sale list for stud purpo.se?. Silvevbon, the Tasmanian colt, for whom the big price of six hundred guineas was paid a couple of seasons back, is said to be tho Ballarat good ching for the Melbourne Cup. He won all hie two-year-old races in Tasmania, but ran last in the only race he started tor last season — the Ballarat Handicap, won by Hogmanay. Since thon he has been added to the list. The Canterbury Jockey Club have not so far had any cause to regret their taking the Grand National Steeplechases under control. Last year the Canterbury Jockey Club derived a profit of £150 from the fixture, /and this year their revenue will be enriched through it to the extent of about £200. Christchurch writers arejjloud in their praise of Mr E. D. O'Rourke's riding in tho Hunters' Hurdle Race at the^recent Hunt Club Meeting, which he won by the aid of Tramp. The annual balance-sheet of the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club shows that the season commenced with a balance due to the bank of £1,351 10s 7d, and that this amount lias not been materially reduced, bub tboir position is bettor by £144 than at tho commencement of the season. Last season's operations showed a loss of W92 17s, while this year a surplus has resulted. A Dunedin jockey named W! Buddicombe was suspended for a month for disobedience at the post while riding Green Isle in the Elsterriwick Park ' Handicap lately. " Augur," referring to the suspension, says it is somewhat remarkable that our visitors should receive so much attention, while the Victorians are let off scot free. Lord Hopetoun, the new Governor of Victoria, like Lord Kin tore and Lord Onslow, is nob a racing man. His lordship, however, is a follower of hounds. The Squire was shipped for Sydney an Tuesday. A good deal of business was done oye the New Zealand Cup during the Christchurch Grand National week, bub tho only significant transaction was a small commission to back Jet d'Eau on account of the stable. Recluse, Dudu, Occident, and Scots Grey have each been backed at 100 to 10. Mr W. Walters has lost his brood mare Grand Duchess, who died at Papakura on Saturday lasb from inflammabion of bhe lungs. She was bred by bhe late Mr W. Walters in 1876, and was got by Traducer out of the celebrated mare Peeress, by The Peer. Although having such good blood in her veins, Grand Duchess never tjirew 1 anything of note, the best ot her progeny being the three-year-old colt The Baron, sired by Hippocampus.

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